Word: whaling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Whaling is not what it used to be in the days of Moby Dick. Stinking old sailing whalers have given way to stinking little steamers. Earringed harpooners have yielded to modern marksmen, who earn as much as $10,000 a season for shooting harpoons from a cannon. Instead of being dragged alongside, the whale is pulled aboard a "floating factory" ship and converted into oil right on the spot...
...world's 39 "floating factories," which annually take 3,000,000-odd barrels of whale oil, only two fly the U. S. flag. Smaller of the two is the American Whaling Co.'s 6,400-ton Frango, mother ship and rendering plant for a fleet of six whale chasers. Last spring, when the Frango was about to set out for Shark Bay off Western Australia, the U. S. Coast Guard asked for a volunteer to see that no international treaty provision was violated. Lieutenant Thomas Robley Midtlyng, 29, volunteered...
Back in Manhattan last week, Midtlyng told a whale of a story. His life aboard ship had been clear sailing as far as Shark Bay. There Captain Johannes Smith and his crew found that the bay was overhunted: killing many of the whales that were left (small ones and cows with their young) was prohibited. Largest taken the whole cruise was 49 feet long, 14 feet above the minimum. Captain & crew were tempted to kill undersize whales. According to Lieutenant Midtlyng, they did. Each day the high-bowed, gun-mounted chaser boats set out, each night returned, tugging their targets...
...having industriously backed Mr. Roosevelt into a corner, he received word from Mclntyre that the President would really come. Voit Gilmore then had to rush around raising $350 expense money. He told his hard-working mother (whom he calls "Bimble") that he felt as though he had "landed a whale on a trout hook." At last, this week, came the great day. Voit Gilmore rode over from Chapel Hill to the railroad station at Sanford, N. C. with Governor Hoey to receive the President of the United States...
...second, a literary "Lewis and Clark," whose fairy tale explorations may be linked together just as naturally as the two early American pioneers. This new Clark is Harry Clark, a research associate in physics at Harvard. Last week Harry Clark's first children's story, "The Story of A Whale" was published...